We are entering the culmination of the Christian year. The Easter Triduum immerses us in the historical events from which Christianity springs: the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
It is the synthesis of faith, the proclamation of which we call kerygma and that it consists of good news: that death has been defeated, that there is someone who has loved us so much that he has been able to give his life for us to save us from the clutches of death.
That we don't die! That death has become a step towards life!
The news is good, isn't it? The pity is that not everyone believes it. They think it's a fake newWhat will one's supposed death in Jerusalem have to do with my life in April 2021? It is a mystery, but that is how it is: faith is a gift.
Jesus spoke in little stories, in parables "so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand". It is a way of leaving us free, of not forcing us to believe. Being God, he could explain his mystery to us in such an evident way that we would have no choice but to believe, but he explains it with analogies because freedom is necessary to truly love, and faith is, eminently, to love God. In this sense, the life of Jesus is the great parable. You can stay in the story and be a mere spectator of the life of Jesus, as one who only goes to see the processions of Holy Week for its spectacularity and beauty, or take the step, believe it and your life will change in these days and forever.
In a sinister coincidence, last Thursday, March 25, Day of the Annunciation of the Lord and Day for Life, the BOE published the new law regulating euthanasia and assisted suicide in Spain, which will come into force in a few months. It is a new victory for the culture of death, which affirms that there are lives that are not worth living. If a life is useless, it is thrown away; because, if there is no life beyond, only what is useful here is worthwhile.
For this reason, faith in the Resurrection is transcendental, because it opens the gates of heaven for us, giving us infinite dignity, just as the new life that is given to us is eternal. This concept that each person is infinitely valuable is why Christians have always been at the forefront in accompanying those who, according to society, matter the least: the poor, the sick, the elderly, orphans, prisoners, prostituted women... It is the culture of life, which proclaims that every human being has an inalienable dignity.
The approval of the euthanasia law was greeted with four minutes of applause from the deputies. They were aware that this was a historic moment. And indeed it was. Believing they were winning, they were being defeated by death. Seeing, they do not see.
At the Easter Vigil we will celebrate the definitive victory of life. Will we be able to celebrate it in such a way that the whole world becomes aware of it? It is in our hands to witness this: that we are victors, not vanquished!
Journalist. Graduate in Communication Sciences and Bachelor in Religious Sciences. He works in the Diocesan Delegation of Media in Malaga. His numerous "threads" on Twitter about faith and daily life have a great popularity.
